[913] _Ibid._, iii, p. 109. South Carolina, however, did not favor the traders using their Indian slaves to wage war without the authority of the colonial government. Among the instructions given the traders was this one: “You shall not permit or allow any of your slaves to go to war on any pretence whatever.” _Indian Book_, 1710–1718, Columbia, South Carolina Historical Commission Department, i, p. 19. [914] _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations_, viii, pp. 359–361. [915] Bacon, _Laws of Maryland_. [916] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, ii, p. 636. [917] Usher, _History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts_, etc., p. 352; _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, 1885–1887, new series, iv, p. 214; Field, _Provincial Courts of New Jersey_, pp. 130–131; Washburn, _Historical Sketches of Leicester_, p. 51. [918] It is recorded of the Rev. Peter Thacher of Milton, Massachusetts, in 1679, that he beat his Indian slave severely for letting his daughter, Theodora, fall on her head. Earle, _Customs and Fashions in Old New England_, p. 84; Sheldon, _History of Deerfield_, ii, p. 888. [919] _Boston Gazette_, April 7, 1718. [920] _Boston News Letter_, October 4, 1739. [921] _Boston News Letter_, May 23, 1745. [922] _Boston News Letter_, October 30, 1760. [923] _Boston Post Boy_, July 6, 1752. [924] _Boston Weekly Mercury_, October 2, 1735. [925] _American Weekly Mercury_, August 28, 1729. [926] _American Weekly Mercury_, May 24, 1726. [927] Hawks, _History of North Carolina_, etc., second edition, ii, p. 577. [928] The Rev. Peter Fontaine advocated intermarriage with the Indians as a means of promoting their Christianization and civilization. Colonel Byrd favored the plan also. Meade, _Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia_, i, pp. 82, 283–285. [929] Hening, _op. cit._, iii, p. 87. The act also forbade the marriage of free whites and mulattoes or negroes bond or free. Banishment was the punishment for such a marriage. [930] Bruce, _The Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century_, ii, p. 38. [931] Trott, _Laws of the British Plantations in America_, etc., p. 100. [932] Martin, _The Public Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina_, i, pp. 45–46. [933] _Archives of Maryland_, xiii, pp. 546–549. [934] _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 5, vi, p. 143. [935] Weeden, _Economic and Social History of New England_, i, p. 403.